Friday 12th December 2025

Culture

Graceful and self-assured: Circle Mirror Transformation reviewed

Boulevard Productions’ Circle Mirror Transformation is a faithful and competent take on Annie Baker’s 2009 tragicomedy.  The play follows a group of people of different ages taking a beginners’ drama...

‘We’re all mad here’: Alice in Won-DRE-Land at Tingewick 2025

When I wandered into Tingewick Hall on a cold, dark evening in seventh week,...

A comical approach to a classic text: ‘Hedda Gabler’ reviewed

Tiptoe Productions’ Hedda Gabler, co-directed by Ollie Gillam and Gilon Fox, delivered a strong...

‘Lux’ by Rosalía review: A breath of fresh air

'The Latin title ‘Lux’ perfectly embodies the concept and overall aesthetic of divine femininity, as well as the multilingual aspects that run throughout the work. With complex and meaningful lyrics written in 13 languages, and split into four movements, the record is a breath of fresh air for the pop scene'.

Press Preview: Never Say Never

Jack Powell is nonplussed by this new adaptation.

Review: Under the Mask – OAM

Henry Asson unmasks the Oxford Art Movement

Review: Messiah Man

Daniel Frampton is disappointed by a chaotic and under rehearsed performance of Messiah Man at the Burton Taylor

Review: Wit

Daniel Frampton is impressed by a moving and thought provoking production

Press Preview: Orpheus in the Underworld

Claire Harrill is delighted by this witty operetta.

Review: Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks

James Black expresses some misgivings about Of Montreal's latest release

Magdalen Film Society: In the Mood for Love

Goh Li Sian reflects on the first film scheduled for MFS's 'Lovesick' week, showing on Sunday 12th February

Life in Film: Chris Foster

Goh Li Sian kicks off our new Life in Film feature by interviewing Chris Foster, Corpus porter

Sneak Peak:The Blind Spot

A sneak peak into the first play from Royal Court young writer Alexander Darby in which a vicious poker game in an elite boarding school exposes public school morality, fractured ego and callous teenage humanity.

Falling out of love with reality

Emily Hislop discusses the breakdown in our relationship with docu-TV

Review: Carnage

Joseph Newall deliberates Polanski's middle class farce

Decades in Film: the 50s

Benjamin McEvoy kicks back with Brando and Dean

Culture Vulture

The culture editors pick over the carcasses of fourth week's offerings

Just right with Cartwright

Christy Edwall talks apartheid and friendship with the acclaimed author

Noughtie Oxford

Tom Cutterham reviews Ben Masters' first novel - a eulogy to student life

Film’s four-legged friends

Sasha O'Connor accompanies our War Horse review with a broader look at iconic horses in cinema

Review: War Horse

Joseph Newall is unimpressed by Spielberg's equine epic

Press Preview: Cabaret

Alex Sheppard visits the seedy Kit Kat Klub

Wise-ing Up

Christy Edwall takes a tour of Summertown's Sarah Wiseman Gallery

Women at Work

Rebecca Loxton talks to Oxford grad Joanna Berry about the new chick-lit

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